Cathy Byrne was the subject of a report in the Weekend Australian

Research by Cathy Byrne, a PhD candidate at CRSI, was the subject of a report in the Weekend Australian by Jodie Minus, 'Creationism Creeps into NSW Schools', 26 June 2010. Ms Byrne found that students in one school were told they would 'burn in hell' if they did not 'believe in Jesus', while, in another school, children received creationist showbags with DVDs deriding evolution and claiming the earth was only 6000 years old.